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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
·
Charles Kingsley
81
“Doubtless
you
are
familiar
with
the
stony
skeleton
of
our
Madrepore,
as
it
appears
in
museums.
It
consists
of
a
number
of
thin
calcareous
plates
standing
up
edgewise,
and
arranged
in
a
radiating
manner
round
a
low
centre.
A
little
below
the
margin
their
individuality
is
lost
in
the
deposition
of
rough
calcareous
matter.
.
.
.
The
general
form
is
more
or
less
cylindrical,
commonly
wider
at
top
than
just
above
the
bottom.
.
.
.
This
is
but
the
skeleton;
and
though
it
is
a
very
pretty
object,
those
who
are
acquainted
with
it
alone,
can
form
but
a
very
poor
idea
of
the
beauty
of
the
living
animal.
.
.
.
Let
it,
after
being
torn
from
the
rock,
recover
its
equanimity;
then
you
will
see
a
pellucid
gelatinous
flesh
emerging
from
between
the
plates,
and
little
exquisitely
formed
and
coloured
tentacula,
with
white
clubbed
tips
fringing
the
sides
of
the
cup-shaped
cavity
in
the
centre,
across
which
stretches
the
oval
disc
marked
with
a
star
of
some
rich
and
brilliant
colour,
surrounding
the
central
mouth,
a
slit
with
white
crenated
lips,
like
the
orifice
of
one
of
those
elegant
cowry
shells
which
we
put
upon
our
mantelpieces.
The
mouth
is
always
more
or
less
prominent,
and
can
be
protruded
and
expanded
to
an
astonishing
extent.
The
space
surrounding
the
lips
is
commonly
fawn
colour,
or
rich
chestnut-brown;
the
star
or
vandyked
circle
rich
red,
pale
vermilion,
and
sometimes
the
most
brilliant
emerald
green,
as
brilliant
as
the
gorget
of
a
humming-bird.”
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